Former India captain and present BCCI president Sourav Ganguly celebrated his 49th birthday on Thursday (July 8, 2021). The left-handed batsman has been one of India’s most successful skippers leading them to NatWest Trophy win in 2002 and first-ever Test series win on the Pakistan soil.
Apart from this, The Men in Blue ended as runners-up in the Knockout trophy in the year 2000 and during the 50-over World Cup in 2003 under Ganguly’s captaincy.
They lost to New Zealand in the Knockout trophy final while suffering a defeat against Australia in the title clash of the World Cup.
Ganguly is one of the Indian batsmen to have scored a century on a Test debut. He achieved the feat back in 1996 against England at Lord’s and was capped 113 times in the longer format for the side, scoring over 7000 runs during the course.
He played 311 ODIs for India and notched up a total of 11363 runs at an average of 41.02. The left-hander hung his boots from international cricket in 2008 and was later appointed as the president of CAB in 2015 and held the post October 2019 before becoming the president of the BCCI.